A future dinner guest

David left early this morning and is in Costa Rica now. He went with two other couples as everyone was close to the end of their six month immigration stamp. Puerto Viejo is a small coastal tourist town just across the border from Panama and is a popular place for cruisers to go when they need to renew their immigration stamp. After three days out of Panama he'll return with a new stamp good for another six month.

I was just sitting in the cockpit enjoying the sunset and saw a large 3 or 4 foot fish. It's a really nice large and fat Cobia. One of the best fish ever!! They're known for their fierce fighting and have to be worn down or killed before bringing aboard because even the little ones can thrash on deck so hard that they can bend stainless steel stanchions (tubing), break wood and just cause general destruction. But they are worth the work! Wouldn't you know it though that my gaffer and fish cleaner is on vacation. So I have to figure out how to keep my future dinner guest around until Thursday when David is due back. I'm sure David will really like to come home from vacation just to help land and clean a fish. I'll convince him though!

Its been really really hot here the last two days, cool at night though.

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